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Richard Rolle - Prose and Verse from MS. Longleat 29 and related manuscripts (Hardcover)
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Richard Rolle - Prose and Verse from MS. Longleat 29 and related manuscripts (Hardcover)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series
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The Yorkshireman Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349) was the first and
most immediately influential of the English medieval mystics. His
writings, including the Latin, remain extant in more than four
hundred manuscripts, mainly of the fifteenth century. His
passionate insistence on an personal communion between Creator and
created was to affect the development of pre-Reformation religious
thought, and his ultimate choice of English as the vehicle in which
to express his teaching, at a time when it was still a secondary
language, rekindled in a modern idiom the tradition of vernacular
devotional prose. This is the first full critical edition of
Rolle's major English writings, excepting only his glossed Psalter.
Although the manuscript chosen as a base text is not in the
original Northern dialect, it is of sufficient authority to restore
many readings hitherto lost or corrupt, and its inclusion of two
texts outside the established canon suggests that this should now
be reappraised. The introduction extends the researches of H. E.
Allen on Rolle manuscripts, discusses their relationships, and
examines methods of textual transmission. In the notes, much of
Rolle's possible source material is cited, and the edition
concludes with a select glossary.
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